wašku(wa)llimma/i-

All texts containing the lexeme come from the Kuwattalla tradition or are associated with it (from MS onward).

[E.R.]

nom./acc. sg. n.	wa-aš-ku-wa-al-li-im-ma-an-za	KUB 35.16 i 5’	(CTH 760, NS)
	wa-aš-ku-wa-al-li-⸢ma⸣-a[n-za]	KBo 9.143 iii! 8’	(CTH 763, MS)
	⸢wa-aš⸣-ku-[wa-al-l]i-im-ma-an-za	KBo 29.36, 7’	(CTH 763, MS)
abl./instr.	wa-aš-ku-li-im-ma-a-ti	KBo 29.6 obv. 24’ KBo 29.6 obv. 26’	(CTH 762, NS) (CTH 762, NS)
unknown	wa-aš-ku-[	KUB 32.124 iv 4’	(CTH 763, NS)

 The assignment of wa-aš-ku-[ at KUB 32.124 iv 4’ is obviously not assured.

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[E.R.]

CLuw. wašku(wa)llimma/i- is generally interpreted as an adjective qualifying the preceding noun ḫārat(t)arša ‘offence’ (Starke 1990a:258 n. 880, CLL:265, EDHIL:983, HEG U-Z:400), but the word order points to a substantivization thereof, juxtaposed to a quasi-synonym (HHw:s.v.; undecided DLL:109). Semantically, either solution is more than compatible with what the transparent stem formation suggests. The lexical base of the word, viz. *waškuwa- ‘sin, offence’ forms an adjective *waškuwalla/i- ‘sinful, iniquitous, offensive’, from which a denominative verb *waškuwalli-^(ti) ‘to act in a sinful/offensive way’ is derived. Accordingly, its participle, the attested wašku(wa)llimma/i-, means ‘done in a sinful/iniquitous way’ (thus Starke 1990a:258 n. 880, CLL:265, EDHIL:983, HEG U-Z:400) and its substantivization denotes ‘sinful/offensive deed’, i.e. ‘sin, iniquity, offence’ (HHw:s.v.; without translation of the derivative DLL:109).

[E.R.]

If the synchronic categorization as a noun is correct, it belongs to the class of neuter thematic nouns in -(a)- (otherwise it would be a mutated adjective). For the derivational chain, see under Meaning.

[E.R.]

For the lemma head see CLuw. wašt(a)-.